Ellipsis (was grgr (34): "now everybody---")

[Paul Mackin]

The book ends with a dash (--) but the verse ends with four dots.

Might as well give my usual interpretation of the verse.  Within the
"Calvinist" religious metaphor, the Light, standing for the Devine,
has a change of heart and will now, contrary to expectations, save the
preterite damned--make them elect in other words.  Within the Tarot
metaphor the Tower (mighty) will fall providing a better deal for the 
weak. The faces in the mountainsides and souls in the stones are simply
recognition, at long last, of the worth of all creatures.

The book gets a Brechtian ending because afterall it's only a story.

				P.

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Mark Wright AIA wrote:

> Howdy
> 
> Anyone thought much about P's incontinent sprinkling of ellipsis
> everywhere?  I do it myself, I'm afraid....  
> 
> My little fuzzy paperback dictionary here defines "ellipsis" as
> 1) the omission of a word or words necessary for complete grammatical
> construction but understood in the context (a slang-y example from
> American English -- "I could care less" *really* means "I couldn't care
> less" -- and I hate people who don't say it properly)
> 2) a mark (...) indicating an intentional omission of words or letters
> or an abrupt change of thought, lapse of time,incomplete statement,
> etc.
> 
> I don't have my copy handy, but it occurs to me to wonder; does P close
> GR with open ellipsis (three little dots) or with closed ellipsis (four
> little dots)?
> 
> Mark
> 
> --- Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> >  ... it's a cyclical end and we could start again: a screaming comes
> > across the 
> > sky ... but unlike in the case of "a way a lone a last a loved a long
> > the > 
> > riverrun, past eve and adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,
> > brings us by 
> > a commodius vicus of recirculation back to howth castle and environs"
> > we're not 
> > forced to make another round ... one can also, as has been noted here
> > before, 
> > connect this end to the beginning of vineland ... another issue 
> > is the mobilizing aspect of this ending ... we're not only invited to
> > sing the 
> > song, but, that how it feels to me, to write or paint or sing or
> > dance our very 
> > own gr (- whatever this measn to  y o u) ... a-and with the so called
> > 
> > "unfinishedness" of the novel's last part trp has educated us to be
> > creative ... 
> > ... to flow along while making sense we have to amplify a lot ...
> > like joseph 
> > beuys sez: "jeder mensch ist ein künstler" (- every human being is an
> > artist)...
> 
> 
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